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    Agents of Chaos

    Oct 09, 2020 4 minutes
    KERRY HARWIN

    LETTER FROM THE UNITED STATES

    At about 1 am on 20 July—the fifty-fourth consecutive day of protests against police brutality in Portland, Oregon—a flash grenade exploded about four feet to my left, shooting out blinding light and a burst of sparks, illuminating the vast cloud of tear gas near the Mark O Hatfield Federal Courthouse. A journalist in front of me stood behind a large plexiglass shield with a camera affixed to it. I hid behind him, peaking out in an attempt to film the federal agents unleashing this barrage on the few dozen protesters and press.

    As the onslaught appeared to slow down, another tear-gas canister came in our direction. I stepped too far away from the

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